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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said his upcoming meeting with US President Donald Trump would be positive towards easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang state media reported on Thursday. Kim made the remark to visiting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. During the meeting with Pompeo, Kim described the planned summit as \u201chistoric\u201d and \u201cthe excellent first step towards promotion of the positive situation development in the Korean peninsula and building of a good future\u201d. This was Pompeo\u2019s second visit to the Asian country after his secret trip over Easter, when he also met with Kim, to finalise preparations for the summit, reports Efe news. \u201cAt the meeting, an in-depth discussion was made on the practical matters for holding the North Korea-US summit and its procedure and ways. Kim Jong-un reached a satisfactory consensus on the issues discussed with the US state secretary,\u201d Yonhap News Agency quoted KCNA as saying. This is the first time that the North Korean leader officially spoke of the meeting with Trump, which has been scheduled for the end of May or the beginning of June and will be the first meeting in history between the heads of government of the two countries. KCNA said Kim also \u201caccepted an official suggestion of the US President for the release of Americans who have been detained\u201d and gave an order \u201con granting amnesty to them for their repatriation\u201d. The three Americans\u2013Kim Dong-chul, 64, Kim Sang-duk, 58, and Kim Hak-song, around 60\u2013who had been held prisoners in North Korea, were all born in South Korea but later acquired the US citizenship. Pompeo also delivered Kim a \u201cverbal message\u201d from Trump, adding Kim highly appreciated that the US President had shown \u201cdeep interest in settling the issue through dialogue\u201d. Details of Trump\u2019s message were not disclosed. The North\u2019s media covered Wednesday\u2019s meeting extensively.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pyongyang, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said his upcoming meeting with US President Donald Trump would be positive towards easing tensions on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30674,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30672\/revisions\/30674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}